After talks of the Boston Bruins making some big changes this offseason with their cap space in disarray, Boston pulled off a trade that sends Taylor Hall and pending unrestricted free agent forward Nick Foligno to the Chicago Blackhawks for pending restricted free agent defensemen Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula.
Hall, a former top pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, was a Hart trophy winner and was almost originally drafted by Boston, who picked Tyler Seguin 2nd overall that year. After landing with the Bruins years later via trade, the team signed him to a long-term extension this past offseason.
In this segment of Bruins Beat, Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan give their initial thoughts and reflect on Taylor Hall and his time with the Boston Bruins.
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2 Comments
Everyone wants to throw Don Sweeney a parade for trading Taylor Hall and freeing up Cap Space so that he can sign Tyler Bertuzzi
I guess we're forgetting that due to Don Sweeney's terrible drafting and developing these past eight years they don't and haven't had enough cheap, young talent to augment their roster
So year after year it's led to over paying John Moore, Mike Reilly, Derek Forbort, David Backes, Matt Beleseky Nick Foligno…..
Do Bruins fans realize that in just a couple of seasons that Don Sweeney gave a total of $23M to these three stiffs: Derek Forbort, John Moore and Mike Reilly.
If some of that money that was just flushed down the toilet was still around, assets like Taylor Hall wouldn't have to be given away for next to nothing
$23 F.N Million….. of Reilly, Forbort and Moore, ugh…
Moore: Over paid, stunk, gave them nothing, forced Sweeney to piss away a 2nd round pick to get Anaheim to take him
Reilly: Over paid, stunk, gave them next to nothing, rots away in the AHL because no other team wants him. Could only be traded if the Bruins eat salary or add a pick or prospect which they won't do. Will have to be bought out
Forbort: Overpaid, limited, allergic to the puck, PK, shot blocker only that isn't very good defensively and lousy at transition. No other NHL team is trading anything for Forbort at $3M. The only way to trade him would be to add a pick or prospect to the deal which they won't do. The only other option would be to buy Forbort out
So when you waste $23M in Cap Space on three players that give you nothing, you wind up having to trade a good player like Taylor Hall for pennies on the dollar and lousy return of nothing but Cap Space
And again, people want to credit Don Sweeney for this move. Are you F.N. kidding me? Giving Sweeney credit for having to throw away another asset for nothing so he could fix more of the salary cap problems he caused in the first place
So this Hall trade is just like the David Backes trade in a way.
Backes wasn't traded to "win". Backes was traded along with the Bruins highest draft pick from 2018, 2nd round draft pick Axl Ancersson, for one thing and one thing only, Cap Space
Because Sweeney signed Backes to such a crap contract it was strangling the franchise to the degree where they just had to piss away a 1st and their highest drafted player from a draft, just to rid themselves of Backes' money
The Bruins didn't wind up with the NHL's worst salary cap situation, worst draft capital situation and having one of the NHL's worst Farm Systems because Sweeney traded more draft picks at this year's deadline
They are here in this rotten state because of eight years of terrible asset management and putrid drafting & developing, not because Orlov, Hathaway and Bertuzzi were traded for at this year's deadline
And was all if this worth it? Um, nope
7 of the last 8 years Don Sweeney's Bruins have failed to win more than one playoff round (87% of the time)
4 of the last 8 years Don Sweeney's Bruins have either posted a playoff DNQ (2017) or a 1st round loss (2016, 2022, 2023) – 50% of the time
So…..
NHL's worst salary cap situation
NHL's worst draft capital situation
One of the NHL's worst farm systems
Nothing but playoff fails and chokes to show for it
But sure give Don Sweeney another GM of the Year award because he had to just give away another asset for nothing in return, just so that he can fix more of the cap management problems he created in the first place
Mitchell may become some bottom pair guy with some offense, Regula too but that's those two players' ceilings and based on how things have played out in Chicago so far for each, there is no guaranty either reaches that low bar
So say what you want about Hall, he had a fair amount of talent
The roster just got less talented and the purpose of the Hall trade, where an asset (Hall) had to be given away for next to nothing ,was simply executed to fix Cap Issues Don Sweeney created himself with too many bad UFA contracts and his absolutely abysmal drafting, developing & asset management over the course of his either years as GM of the Boston Bruins
No winning these past 8 years,, just one playoff choke after another
NHL's worst salary cap situation
NHL's worst draft capital situation
One of the NHL's worst farm systems
Get Don Sweeney the GM of the Year S.T.A.T.
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Before he came over from Buffalo; 2 goals in 37 games, before he went out prior to playoffs; 3 goals in 28 games. There's a reason he's headed to his 6th team. The 6 mil versus his production, never aligned.